I confess that during my own e-odyssey this year, getting myself educated, I've tended toward making the most of what upscale straight white guys can do. I guess that's natural because it's been my own personal exploration.

But as I became oriented and started looking around, I started to notice things that people like you and the Pew Internet folks would cite: that as we conceive and design this new world, let's not forget the other "e": Everyone.

The game becomes grand fun, then, with this new challenge: transform it from tip to toe, but with the groundrule that what we create has to conform to "with noone left out."

I also have to tell the Internet that you were, I think, the first person I interacted on the morning after the election in California. As we walked down to Moscone Center, you made some empathetic statements that made the idea of unequal treatment of minorities not feel so bad that day. It just goes to show that you do not have to have an MD to be able to heal. George Moscone would be proud,

When speaking of the populations above, we are talking about disparities that continue to exist where there is economic equity. For example, we know that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender individuals experience health disparities at all economic and educational levels, based on their minority status. This is true for many of the other vulnerable populations above. I hope that explains things, and thank you!